Word: nearest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...selling shoe laces when eight years old, and gradually rose to be a tailor's assistant. When I was 17.1 set up a business of my own, and have gradually expanded it until now I sell my clothes to farmers all over the country at $20 less than my nearest rival...
...about our lowest, and we were strongly reminded that the days of Sir Philip Sidney are not over, for out of that very Ford stepped two Harvard undergraduates (both feeling fine!) and offered assistance. We thanked them, but refused, as we had help, and they promptly went to the nearest car in trouble and offered their services. I saw those two boys help six cars out--with their Ford, or else pushing. They must have been drenched, as all who sat through the game were, and then they got covered with mud. One man had the poor taste to offer...
...disappointment to find under the very nice "Ibis Inklings" heading, the old,--oh, very old one--about the human race being the funniest. That is not even up to the one about the Frenchman of note who, upon being asked what animal he thought was nearest to a human being, replied "L'Angiais." And the funnies attempted to be made out of newspaper headlines all seem to be forced; not that such headlines are not perfectly good game, for they are. But we couldn't give more than about a D grade to a paper containing those in the present...
William T. ("Big Bill") Tilden, perched securely atop the tennis world these several years, looked down beneath him and selected ten players who seemed to him to reach upwards nearest to the judgment seat: 1) Vincent Richards, 2) William M. Johnston, 3) Rene La Coste, France, 4) Gerald L. Patterson, Australia, 5) Manuel Alonso, Spain, 6) Pat O'hara Wood, Australia, 7) Jean Borotra, France, 8) Howard Kinsey, 9) Henri Cochet, France, 10) Baron de Morpurgo, Italy...
...Chief Quaker McGraw, caught and carried by one Joe Laird. The Leopards went back to Easton, dark bruises mingled with their spots and the score: Penn 6, Lafayette 3. The Quakers rejoiced in being the only unbeaten, untied Eastern team of the season, Pittsburgh having tied Penn's nearest rival, Syracuse...